Evil Dead Rise director and stars explain how they filmed that gonzo, bloodsoaked ending

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Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Evil Dead Rise. If you've yet to see the movie and don't want to know how it ends, then turn back now.

Evil Dead Rise's ending is so wild that its stars Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland are still not entirely sure how they managed to film it. But that didn't stop them from trying to recall the blood-drenched experience in a new interview with Total Film and GamesRadar+...

"Did the body suit make it in? I don't really know which parts we did made it into the final cut," Sutherland joked during our recent chat. "We filmed some of it and then we had a nine-week lockdown, so things had to change with how we were filming it. All of a sudden we couldn't be on set with one another. So we did some scenes with a backpack with the kids beside me, then we did some of me in a backpack on my own and the kids separately. I still don't quite understand how we achieved it because I think, at that point, my brain just fully dissociated."

Sutherland's state of mind at the time of shooting is understandable: Evil Dead Rise's last act is a lot. After lasting hours of being terrorized by her possessed sadistic sister Ellie (Sutherland), also seeing her niece Bridget (Gabrielle Echols) and nephew Danny (Morgan Davies) succumb to the malevolent demon, Beth (Lily Sullivan) and Kassie (Nell Fisher) try to make a run for it.

In the corridor outside their apartment, the elevator remains busted and the stairs are still gone, so Beth tries to break down the door of '82' to reach the fire escape. When whacking the handle with a hammer doesn't work, she pries neighbor Mr. Fonda's shotgun out of his dead hand and goes to blast the door, but is interrupted when a shrieking Ellie zooms towards them.